Tuesday, April 20, 2010

News at Eleven (Back Page): But Jacques Desse and Alban Causse made

their extraordinary find when they came across a black and white photo taken circa 1880 among postcards and bric-a-brac in a market "somewhere in France".

The photo showed a group of mustachioed bourgeois Frenchmen and one woman in white and was signed Hotel de l'Univers on the back. [Arthur] Rimbaud enthusiasts would know this was the hotel in Aden, Abyssinia, where Rimbaud spent the last years of his life before dying of cancer aged 37.

from Telegraph: French booksellers discover first adult Rimbaud picture

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